Author: tdinap
Date: 2010-05-23 20:22
I've been trying to play a bit more jazz lately and have found that I often want to do things I would (almost) never do in a "classical" setting; i.e. bending notes, vibrato, different articulation styles, creating a different type of tone, etc. It's gotten me thinking a bit about my concept of sound production in both realms and perhaps experimenting with more open, "flexible" setups (I play a Vandoren M15 mouthpiece with V12 3.5+'s or 4's, which I believe is generally thought to be on the slightly "closed" side of things).
So to all you jazz and/or "crossover" players out there, do you alter your setup for playing jazz or classical music?
On the one hand, I like my current classical sound, and and I like how it works as a general baseline sound in a jazz setting (which for me, has been exclusively small combos--no big band opportunities yet). However, when I try to use more non-classical techniques, I find it to be a bit less flexible than might be ideal. I do plan to work more on those types of things on this setup and may find it ends up being totally fine, but I'm interested to hear people's philosophies on this one.
Tom
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